I have been trying to get sound working on my new Debian install for a while now, but nothing seems to be working. When I log in, the sound icon in the top right has a red X over it. Clicking on it gives the message "The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured."
Right-clicking and selecting Open Volume Control gives a dialog with the message "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."

After looking around a bit on google, I tried to solve this with a simple modprobe command:

Right after the line "Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded).", alsaconf gives me a dialog which reads: "No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?"

I've also noted that my system doesn't seem to have /dev/snd, /dev/audio, or /dev/dsp at all.

I can't even tell at this point whether the problem lies in the card, the drivers, or something else in the system.

The card itself is an integrated one on the motherboard (MSI P43 Neo3-F) on the southbridge (Intel ICH10):

So probably the device is just too new for Debian lenny. Try an Ubuntu live CD and see if sound works there. You could also try upgrading to Debian squeeze.

Crysm

10-18-2009 07:13 PM

Sound works fine with my Xubuntu 8.04 liveUSB stick. 8.04 being released about 18 months ago says to me that the chipset can't be quite that new.

Admittedly I have very little experience with ALSA -- in the past either things have just worked or I haven't needed to use them -- but this looks like an ALSA problem to me, guessing from the results of alsaconf and modprobe.